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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Abhaya Datye; Marina Miletic; Jamie Gomez; Eva Chi; Sang M. Han; Catherine Hubka; Yan Chen; Vanessa Svihla; Sung Kang; Heather Canavan

has threaded design challenges throughout the chemical engineering core curriculum to relate real-world Community-, Industry-, Research-, and Entrepreneurship-based projects to fundamental course work. Faculty, graduate students, and dozens of chemical engineering students have developed, implemented, and refined these design challenges which stretch through the core curriculum from the first year to some graduate-level electives courses. Our goal with implementing these varied design challenges is to allow a diverse set of students the opportunity to see the numerous applications of chemical engineering to local and globally-relevant problems [1], and to help them develop the engineering skills and confidence which will

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Arthur Pachachura; Vedansh Patel

nonprofit,Trusted World, to adapt to an increasing demand for their services while providing students with technicalexperiences relevant to their future careers.Problem to ProjectTrusted World is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide resources, such as food,clothing, and personal hygiene products, to other nonprofit agencies at no cost. Unlike organizations that relyon case managers to provide support to individuals, Trusted World connects donated goods to communities inneed by leveraging workers in various agencies, including police stations, schools, and shelters. AlthoughTrusted World once acted as a small community-focused relief operation based solely in Dallas, Texas, theorganization is, at the time of writing

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Cody Crosby; Anita Patrick; Margo Cousins; Laura Suggs; Mia Markey

sponsored by the biomedical engineering department at a large public institution in thesouthwest United States. Data were compiled from the 2018 and 2019 cohorts of the program.Twenty-four participants from different undergraduate majors and universities were selected fromcompetitive applicant pools, paired with a research mentor in the department, and tracked over eachprogram’s duration. The participants were given a 37-question survey upon arrival and after thecompletion of the 10-week summer program (i.e., pre-test and post-test). These questions werebroadly split among four categories to evaluate the participants’ comfort with (1) scientific writing,(2) scientific presentation, and students’ strength of association with the identities and

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Kenneth Van Treuren

person’s life. Written communication is important and, for engineers,technical writing is especially important. It must be clear and concise. Most students today writelike the talk or text. Student e-mail is another good example showing where these skills aredeficient. How can we help iGens develop soft skills in writing? Give opportunities in your classesto write and revise. Practice does make perfect.Oral communication is also important. It isn’t just giving a PowerPoint presentation. To givestudents experience in oral communication, place iGens in situations where they need to talk to theirclassmates. Use techniques like think-pair-share. Knowing how to talk to others leads to satisfyingrelationships. Working on teams is also important in

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Krista Nicklaus; Daniel Puperi; Patricia Clayton

teaching. The reflection journals allow student-teachersopportunities to practice the valuable skill of self-assessment. Practicing the art of self-assessmentas a graduate student will better prepare students as they become faculty members, to regularlyreflect on their own strengths and areas for improvement as a means of becoming a better teacher.Teaching Practicum in BME 214LBME 214L, Computational Fundamentals of Biomedical Engineering Design, is hands-on, project-centered course that is second in a series of 4 “design” courses that all UT Austin BMEundergraduates are required to take during their freshmen through junior year. It consists of two 50-minute lectures per week and one 3-hour lab section per week. Typical fall semester enrollment

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2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

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Amir Karimi; Randall Manteufel

forevaluation of program educational objectives for criterion 4, and linking of student outcomes tothe curriculum for criterion 5. In addition, the definitions of the terminologies used in thegeneral criteria are expanded. The implementation of the new changes began during the 2019-2020 ABET evaluation cycle. This paper is an update of a paper presented in the ASEE-GSWsection in 2017 and explains how the proposed changes may affect the ABET-EAC assessmentprocess in criterion 4. IntroductionAll engineering programs requesting accreditation for the first time or seeking re-accreditationby ABET- Engineering Commission’s (EAC) are required to demonstrate that the program meetsa set of criteria that include both the